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'American Sniper' Hits (the Road) Home'“The film was a moving and accurate portrayal of the impact combat has on our soldiers and, especially, their families,” said Mark Pollack MD, chairman of Rush's Department of Psychiatry.

Below is a list of scientific publications for which this practitioner was either the primary author or a contributor. Citations come from PubMed, a database of biomedical literature, life science journals and online books. PubMed is a service of the US Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health. Click on the title of the cited work for more information (this will take you directly to PubMed.gov). Listings go back five years.

Patient feedback information is available for physicians employed by Rush University Medical Center who have received
30 or more patient surveys. Responses are measured on a scale of 1 to 5, with 5 being the best score.

Friendliness/courtesy of the care provider

4.9

Explanations the care provider gave you about your problem or condition

4.8

Concern the care provider showed for your questions or worries

4.9

Likelihood of your recommending this care provider to others

4.9

Care provider's efforts to include you in decisions about your treatment

4.9

Information the care provider gave you about medications

4.8

Instructions the care provider gave you about follow-up care

4.8

Your confidence in this care provider

4.9

Degree to which care provider talked with you using words you could understand

4.9

Amount of time the care provider spent with you

4.8

For more information about patient feedback, see the Quality Care section of the Rush University Medical Center website.

To watch a brief video of Annabelle S. Volgman, MD, click the play button at the lower left corner of the video frame below.

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My colleagues and I decided to open up a heart center for women to address the various needs of women with heart disease or to prevent heart disease in women. Because since 1984, the rates of women dying from heart disease exceeded that of men, but people still thought that heart disease was only affecting men.

We also see a lot of men in our heart center for women or in the University Cardiologists because our female patients have asked us to see their brothers, their fathers and their husbands because they saw that we were giving very good, comprehensive care for heart disease.

It’s very rewarding to see how much respect I get from my patients. Because when they listen to me, and they understand that I care about them, they really make changes in their lives. And I know that when I speak to a patient, I’m affecting not only that patient, but the whole family — and maybe even the whole community — because that patient can affect so many lives.